Saturday, June 7, 2014

After two (spectacularly) heavy rains this week,the array of living things showing their faces increases.
Today i saw a huge garter snake in the main front yard garden: looked like this one

and was very shy.

Then i saw this:

and when i looked it up, i found this funny post

"This weekend was an attack of the stinkhorns! We've had these funky orange mushrooms sprout up before, but never this many of them. They get their name because they emit an odor not unlike rotting flesh; a fantastic thing to have growing outside your front door, for sure...

Need a Laugh?

an interesting place

Beauty Horse

Oh Well

I Love You Snorkel Cat

Sweetest Vultures

Migrating Geese Are Here

The Flint Hills of Kansa

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Mystical Things

Aung San Suu Kyi Released

Nonviolence

艾未未 Love the Future 爱未来

The Whole World is Watching

The Spirit In Which It Is Given

Well, there is a lot of pain and sorrow, sacrifice, rage and insanity, anxiety and confusion. And that is just the first 5 minutes.Please accept these stories and posts in the spirit in which they are given- to edify, to lift, to lighten, to validate, to weep.Because also: love and sacrifice, wisdom and justice, clarity and gifts. Sometimes it takes more than 5 minutes.Today I added K's story to this blog. She was a little 18 year old when she was deceived into a night of betrayal and crime; trafficked; bought and sold. it is profoundly disturbing that her betrayer was another woman, a wolf in sheep's clothing. hang in there, everybody. Everything is OK in the end. If it isn't ok, it's not the end.